use XML with XML Response of a web service

[carri]

Hi, Im new with LabVIEW, and i have a problem using the web services. I want to have more information with the response of the web service, so I use XML to format the output (with "flatten to XML").

The problem is that i want to recieve the response in XML, and when i recieve the response, the symbols < and > of my XML tags had been modified.

For example, i want to recieve some code like this:

<Response>

<Terminal>

<Name>

example

</Name>

<Value>

<String>

<Val>

Example text

</Val>

</String>

</Value>

</Terminal>

</Response>

but i receive this:

<Response>

<Terminal>

<Name>

example

</Name>

<Value>

<String>

<Val>

Example text

</Val>

</String>

</Value>

</Terminal>

</Response>

PS: Sorry for my english it is very poor.

[Phillip Brooks]

You can use the Unescape XML function:

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361D-01/glang/unescape_xml_string/

[carri]

thanks for the quick reply, but the change of the characters is in the response from the web service, not inside the VI, I don't know if i am explaining it well...

[Ton Plomp]

The Webservice escapes it's response so it's easy to parse (and you cannot interfere between data and communication layer. You can use RegExes to find the Value and unescapes it to use it with XML functions:

Ton

[carri]

The idea is to use the web service with ajax, so i can parse the xml to load the result of the operation, so i can't use this solution. Can I configure the LabVIEW's response not to change that escapes characteres? or any similar solution?

thanks for all responses.

[John Lokanis]

You should not be seeing the & replacements when calling the web service. Try calling it from IE or Firefox and see if you still get them. I don't with any of my web services. This could be a problem with the tool you are using to call the web service and not LabVIEW.

Any decent XML parser should know to convert < to a < character.

[carri]

I'm using Firefox. I configure the output of the web service like a XML file, and I receive it well in my browser, but when I add some XML additional tags, the special characters of those tags were changed, so when i try to parse the XML response with javascript, it didn't recognize the < character like the < character.

[ShaunR]

I'm using Firefox. I configure the output of the web service like a XML file, and I receive it well in my browser, but when I add some XML additional tags, the special characters of those tags were changed, so when i try to parse the XML response with javascript, it didn't recognize the < character like the < character.

Use the javascript "html_entity_decode" function.

html_entity_decode(string)

Normal chars will remain unaffected but   &alt etc will be converted.

Damn. Now I'm a text heretic

[Aitor Solar]

You can also prepare your own XML and send it through the "Write Response.vi". Just configure the method VI output type to Stream instead of Terminal. I think this is the best solution as you can format the XML just the way you need, and avoid all that "name - value" tags.

Saludos,

Aitor

[carri]

thanks for all responses!! I am thinking to try that two last solutions, that are just what i was looking for. Thanks!!

PS: Again, sorry for my poor english.

[carri]

In the end I used another different solution, it was with ESP, so the solution is as Aitor said, but cleaner, as the VI passes the variables to the ESP code, and this code formats the output to send to client